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Senate Bill Would Restrict Banks Overdraft Charges

New York Times | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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In the latest attack on overdraft fees charged by banks, Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat who heads the Senate Banking Committee, introdu...

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Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, White House, Losers, Obama, Business, Legislation, Pharma, Politics, Scorecard, Negotiations, Baucus, Wellpoint, Aetna, Novartis, Pfizer, Health Care, Wall Street, Reid, United Health, Stocks, Merck, Winners, Insurance Industry, Senate, Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Dodd, Medicaid, Bill, Medco Health, Politics News

The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

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CBO Health Care Estimates: Washington Post Profiles Agency That Estimates Health Care Bills' Costs

Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Bill, Insurance Companies, Phil Ellis, CBO Numbers, Public Option, House, Cbo, Reform, CBO Estimates, CBO Costs, Negotiations, Health Insurance Companies, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Senate, Home News

Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis ...

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GOP, Democratic Senators Agree: Get Swine Flu Vaccination

The Hill | J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theory, Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelius, Swine Flu Vaccine, Swine Flu, Conspiracy, Obama, Rush Limbaugh, House, Senate, White House, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Glenn Beck, H1n1, Flu Season, Bill Maher, Politics News

Right-wing pundits like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have recently spoken out against government direction on the H1N1 vaccine, saying that individual...

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Sotomayor's Clothes Picked By Government Officials During Supreme Court Nomination, Says New Justice

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen f...

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Dressing for Copenhagen

William S. Becker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Senate, Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Global Climate Change, Kerry, Environment, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Green News
William S. Becker

It now is up to the U.S. Senate to make sure Uncle Sam is not only fully dressed, but dressed for success when he shows up in Copenhagen Dec. 7 to work on a global climate deal.

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Exceptions To Derivatives Trading Rule Dilute Regulation

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: The Federal Reserve, Larry Summers, Clinton, Lehman Brothers, Derivatives Regulation, Aig, Obama Administration, Regulation, Obama, Legislation, House, Senate, White House, Economic Policy, Fed, Financial Services Committee, Treasury, Banks, Derivatives, Gary Gensler, Wall Street, Timothy Gueithner, Bill, Business News

Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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The Census and the GOP Latino Strategy: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Don't Count 'Em

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, 2010 Census, Senate, Latino Voters, Acorn, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Immigration, Democrats, Republican Party, New York News
Miguel Guadalupe

Republican Senators have proposed to require all those who fill out census surveys to affirm their citizenship. That may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.

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I Am Not a Pre-Existing Condition

Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: C-Sections, Women's Rights, Senate, Reproductive Rights, RH Reality Check, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy, Domestic Violence, Politics of Birth, Childbirth, Inside DC, Politics News
Amie Newman

Is the fact that women experience gender discrimination in health care even debatable? Many insurance companies even regard a C-section as a pre-existing condition. This must stop.

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Let's Finish the Fight

Lee Fisher | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senate, Lee Fisher, Health Care, 2010 Elections, Ohio, Politics News
Lee Fisher

We can't just sit back and expect a perfect health reform bill to emerge -- we have to be ready to work for it. It's now up to us to make sure the health insurance industry doesn't convince legislators to oppose reform

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Arlen Specter 2010: Ominous Signs For Specter's Re-Election Bid

Politics Daily | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Although Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter leads his Democratic primary opponent and is running neck-and-neck in a general election matchup against Repu...

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Halftime At The Healthcare Reform Superbowl

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 60 Votes, Win One for the Gipper, White House, Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Democratic, Reform, Alan Grayson, Football Metaphor, Grayson, Halftime, Snowe, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Win One for the Skipper, Baucus, Nancy Pelosi, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reid, Reconciliation, Conference Committee, House, Football, Cheerleader, Olympia Snowe, 50 Votes, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Floor Vote, Teddy Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Steny Hoyer, Coach, Chris Weigant, Sailing, Health, Corporate Whore, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Superbowl, Dodd, Hoyer, Pep Talk, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.

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What Olympia Snowe's Support Could Mean

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Public Option, Senate Health Committee, Senate Finance Committee, John Boehner, Progressives, Democratic Party, Bipartisan, Sarah Palin, Senate, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Senator Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Socialism, Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

By supporting a moderate bill in committee, Snowe has made the GOP, or at least part of it, relevant again; succeeding where Michael Steele, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh and others have failed.

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Leaving the Streets for Tweets: The Shift of Young America

Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senate, Congress, Obama, Health Care, Healthcare, Internet, Blogosphere, Twitter, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Zeeshan Aleem

Young progressives' public outrage has been supplanted by a clean virtual connectedness, and movement conservatives have succeeded in exploiting the space left behind.

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Cadillac Tax: Congress Is Split On Reform Effort To Tax Costly Health Care Plans

New York Times | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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A proposed tax on high-cost, or "Cadillac," health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle ove...

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Max Baucus Has Only Himself To Blame

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Wasted Time, Timetable, Health Insurance Industry, Obama, Reform, Reid, Baucus, Obstructionism, Health Care, August, Committee, House, Finance Committee, Democrat, Congress, Bipartisan, Democrats, Barack Obama, Americas Health Insurance Plans, Insurance Industry, Chris Weigant, Health, Industry, Health Insurance, Max Baucus, Obstructionist, Harry Reid, Republicans, Ahip, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

I have little sympathy for Baucus at this point, when he complains that his adversaries have had time to put out a report attacking his bill. Because there is one reason that they've had all that time.

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On Columbus Day: Senate Apology Should Be Followed With Action

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. History, Native American Rights, Native Americans, Senate, Columbus Day, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

It's hard for a country to change its founding mythology, but the U.S. Senate has taken an important step towards accomplishing that by approving an apology to Native Americans.

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WSJ: Nancy Pelosi Is Key To Republicans' 2010 Election Playbook

Wall Street Journal | By NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, House, Strategy, Election Strategy, National Republican Congressional Committee, Democrats, Nrcc, Afghanistan War, Pelosi, Mcchrystal, Nancy Pelosi, Wall Street Journal-NBC News Poll, Afghanistan, Republicans, 2010 Elections, Senate, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republicans are stepping up attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deciding that a major part of their 2010 electoral strategy will be l...

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Rousing Speech, Mr. President, But the Pressure Continues

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Equality March, Lgbt, Congress, Human Rights Campaign, Senate, Timeline, President Obama, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

The president, fresh from his Nobel Prize for Peace, didn't mention anything about a timeline for ending don't ask, don't tell, and as he has said on other occasions, nothing happens in Washington without a timeline.

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Analysis of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

David Doniger | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Senate, Boxer, Kerry, Greenjobs, Globalwarming Pollution, energyandclimate2009, Green News
David Doniger

The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act includes the major policies needed to generate millions of jobs, break our dependence on oil, and reduce the pollution that causes global warming.

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Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

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Take the "Opt Out" Public Option--Good Policy, Politics

Tom Matzzie | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Senate, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Tom Matzzie, Opt-Out, Democrats, Health Care, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Tom Matzzie

Progressives should see in the "Opt Out" an opportunity to win their policy proposal and create a political bulwark of public support behind the Public Option.

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An Interview With Senate Candidate Ryan Frazier

David Thielen | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Senate, Ryan Frazier, Colorado, Colorado Republicans, Colorado Politics, 2010 Election, Betsy Markey, Colorado Democrats, Denver News
David Thielen

I got the chance to interview Ryan Frazier yesterday. The gigantic impression I got of Ryan, both at first and throughout the conversation, is he is a...

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Lawyer Blasts "Congressional Depravity" on Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, House of Representatives, Congress, War on Terror, World, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Military Commissions Act, Detainee Treatment Act, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, World News, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mohammed Jawad, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.

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